He had a gentleness of manners, that was peculiar to himself; and, instead of possessing such imperious severity of spirit as might produce the calamity I allude to, he was really endued with such native tenderness of heart as must have sunk under it, had he not found in the unexampled services that he rendered to the world, an antidote to the poison of domestic infelicity.

Detached clouds swept imposingly up the valley, as if they were endowed with independent motion and had special work to do in replenishing the mountain wells, now rising above the pine-tops, now descending into their midst, fondling their arrowy spires and soothing every branch and leaf with gentleness in the midst of all the savage sound and motion.

And his sometimes unusual gentleness to his companion was sharply alternated with unusual choler, excited by a mere nothing.

Here was the end, then, of all the love he had put into his work, of all the feminine gentleness with which he had petted Diablo and soothed him.

The ladies, though treated by their rustic swain with more gentleness than the men, were occasionally exposed to his capriciousness and insolence.

Beautiful, too, as autumn sunshine is maturity looking down with gentleness on the ideal it has surpassed, and reverencing it still for old ideas and associations.

Sirrah, sirrah, thou deservest to live no longer, but to be slain immediately upon the place; yet that all men may see our gentleness toward thee, let us hear what thou hast to say.

Return good for evil, love for hatred, gentleness for ill-treatment, and remain silent when attacked.

Spite of this beastly habit it must be said honestly of the old he-wolf that he shows a marvelous gentleness towards his mate.

[Illustration: Letter I.] I begin with distinguishing true gentleness from passive tameness of spirit, and from unlimited compliance with the manners of others.

God bless thee, youthful sir, for 'tis well to meet with gentleness within a world so cruel.

But the sun, slowly as it rolled, sought out those shadows; they moved, crept to other hiding-places, and the golden light coaxed a subdued, soft gentleness across the massive boulders.

He preserved simplicity and gentleness amid all the distractions attending his government.

And he preceded them to his office, and examined his case, which proved to be a slight one, with such gentleness as almost to lead them to doubt whether Abernethy within his consulting-room, and Abernethy whom they had encountered in the passage, was really the same personage.

When his hand moved it was to take Jig under the chin with marvelous firmness and gentleness at once and lift the face of the schoolteacher.

I further displayed my gentleness by biting Dr. Irwin's fingers when he attempted to look at my throat, and the good man evidently regarded me as a pretty refractory patient.

As she drove about the campus, perched on the high seat of the red-wheeled dog-cart, her lovely face looked down with none of Eleanor Hubert's gentleness into the envying eyes of the other girls.

With his quick, full appreciation of everything truly noble he had often noted the firm principles, which lay under her sweet gentleness like fine white marble under soft green moss.

Everything becomes perceptible through its opposite alone: gentleness through sternness, love through anger, affirmation through negation.

There was the same specially quiet and one may say harmonious gentleness about her manner and her thought and her ways.